Curtain 9-1-1

I recently painted the kitchen.  Out with the green and in with the off-white.  I realized quickly that I would need to be purposeful about bringing in color since the walls were looking a little boring.  The kids and I hopped in the car and headed for Crafty Planet, my new favorite fabric store (when they should have been napping, I might add).  Since the curtains on the sliding door shrunk even more when I washed them, I decided to add some fabric to them.  I chopped off the bottom of the curtains so I could add a foot-high piece of fabric along the bottom.  Once I sewed it to one curtain and hung it up, I knew I needed to change it so the fabric would be on the top.  The tabs on the curtains came off and I sewed tabs to the fabric panel.  Viola... flip the curtains up side down and we have new-and-improved curtains for less than $10.

Oh, wait, it wasn't that easy.  When I cut the bottom off the curtains, I kinda sorta didn't cut it straight.  Boy, was that obvious once they were hanging up!  Ribbon to the rescue.  I bought a roll of 1 1/2 inch wide brown ribbon and sewed it over the seam between the curtain and the fabric panel.   Viola... curtains that look good!

I avoid pinning whenever possible, but when attaching the ribbon it was important to pin enough so the ribbon wouldn't shift.